Once in a Blue Moon.... and August Virtual Book club

Yesterday we experienced .... the once in a blue moon day.....!!! 

Well there are various ideas of what this really means but we decided to go for the appearance of the second full moon in one month. Here is a definition  given by Wikipedia. K and L seemed rather interested in the activity and we took the opportunity to link it to Our Summer Virtual Book Club activity at Toddler Approved. The author chosen for August was Kevin Henkes. To relate to our Blue Moon experience we read Kitten's first full moon.

The activity we did was to finger paint a moon. Well actually the first was to see the Full moon on Friday 31st August 2012.

 
We also watched this video for more info related to the phases of the moon.

For the activity first L had to choose on which coloured paper to paint between blue and black. He chose black as he said it reminded him of the night sky.

Next he had to choose the shape to use to draw the full moon.

He chose the circle and then drew around it.

Next it was paint time ......

.... and this is Lee's full moon!!

Next we did some role play of the story with a cat hand puppet and Lee's full moon!!

This was a great activity and I am sure it will not be one in a blue moon only ;-) we will be doing more activities related to moon ..... until the next post you can follow this Blog Hop related to Kevin Hankes books.

O is for Olympics

We have been working on various stuff related to the Olympics but yet I had no time to publish any. Now I will post some interesting links we found online and later will post photos of activities K and L did related to the Olympics.




Learn about the Olympic mascots, create one and play games https://mascot-games.london2012.com/

A good link to Summer Olympics resources http://www.kathimitchell.com/olympics.html

Printable stuff http://www.abcteach.com/directory/theme_units/sports/olympics/

Log in at https://getset.london2012.com/en/login/international for educational stuff related to the olympics

Finally here are the photos showin some of the activities K and L did related to the Olympics.

Olympic Stadium info for Lapbook

 Colouring of all 26 sport disciplines

Craft related to Olympic Emblem

  Fun Olympic water play

Olympic Themed cookies

  Olympic diving practise

  Olympic Swimming practise at sea

Sorting boy girl 

Colour big balls blue small balls yellow

Cutting Practice

Circle the odd one out

Writing Practise

Preparing lapbook cover

Sort  by type

Sort by sizeS

Working on Olympics LapbookS

S is for Spain

Hola ..... we have spent 7 great days in beautiful Spain. Weather was quite similar to Malta and the beach was fun even though water much colder than our beautiful sea. K and L had a great time at Marineland Aquapark especially the dolphin show.

We all loved beautiful Barcelona especially the Sagrada Famiglia by Gaudi and all the beautiful architecture in it.

We also visited the Aquarium in Barcelona. K and L had a great time seeing closely all that fish.

Our Snacks of traditional food bought from the market at the Ramblas were the best street food we could taste.

The Magic Fountain of Montjuic are the best entertainment in Barcelona at night. Water dancing to music .... magical!!

Girona was another excursion which takes you back in time of a different era in Spain.

We also visited the Black Madonna in Montserrat.

The last day K and L had great fun in Portaventura whilst we ended the holiday with a delicious Spanish meal of tapas and Seafood and a wonderful Flamenco Show!!!

Travelling is a great experience to learn about the culture and life and traditions of other countries. The little time we spent in Spain was a great experience for the children and us. I am sure there is much more to learn and see but I am happy we gave this experience to our children. 

We are already looking for new places to visit .... !